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by S.M. Schrama on May 31, 2006
Project Comet will launch in 2006 and will combine the publishing power of TypePad, the community aspects of LiveJournal and the years of insight garnered from Movable Type. Project Comet is focused...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 31, 2006
When Google released it's Web Toolkit, a rumor said they developed it together with Morfik. Morfik just sent a press release, starting:"Morfik Will Pursue all Avenues to Protect its IP...
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As AJAX powered applications are being released constantly, the need for security checks and regulations is clear. San Antonio based Denim Group announces the release of Sprajax, an open source...
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O'Reilly has stepped back and has now agreed on IT@Cork's usage of the term "Web 2.0" for their conference:Donagh Kiernan of IT@Cork (to whom the letter was addressed) graciously...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 30, 2006
Google has released it's notebook application. It is not a real application, but actually an extension that runs in Firefox. A version for Internet Explorer is also available. The application is...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 29, 2006
Bubbleshare, reviewed here before, has announced a bunch of new features like improved navigation, searching and tagging of photos and BubbleShare Sync for Mac. So PLEASE tell us what you think of...
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Apparently, idea organizers are either easy to build software os a standard app is available - wridea is one in many. As Zoho offers the zohoplanner(review), wridea does almost the same thing. Key...
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Auctions are not new on the net. They have proven to be succesfull - just think about ebay for example. A new one on the net however is Limbo, where the lowest bid wins:A Salt Lake City woman named...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 28, 2006
CMP Media and O'Reilly have filed for a trademark on the phrase "Web 2.0". Bizarre ? In some ways, yes. Why they did it ? They've put together the Web 2.0 conference, due to take...
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by S.M. Schrama on May 24, 2006
Web2.0 techniques, especially AJAX creates a beautiful and rich gui for your website. But that doesn't mean a thing to the blind. They just get more trouble because of it. Lawsuits are filed more...
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Richard MacManus on ZDNet reports about ZDNet readers commenting on his first review of the Zimbra Office Suite saying the suite is way too heavy for older hardware. Especially the fact that a...
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Filed in archive Ajax
by S.M. Schrama on May 24, 2006
The eye-candy that we generally refer to as AJAX is now in our reach : Lightbox is here. The effect of an image that opens floating over the current page is clear and simple beauty. As a webhoster...
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The Flagr homepage looks like you landed on Google Maps. And you are in a way. What is Flagr all about ? Simple : You're at your favorite restaurant and want to share it's adress with others....
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Zoho Creator by AdventNet is a webbased interface that allows you to create programs. The whole thing has a rich AJAX built interface that has a familiar look and feel for users known to AJAX apps in...
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Creating your own image gallery is becoming popular as people blog. Bubbleshare offers a nice gallery on the web with a very attractive AJAX interface that looks similar to iPhoto. The interface is...
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Every day several applications that are built on AJAX are released. The added value of these applications is sigificant : instead of replicating existing locally installed applications, most of them...
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Years ago when ICQ was invented me and a lot of others were to be found on it almost constantly. Well, not when you weren't at home of course - that had not been invented yet. Nowadays you can...
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Most project management software is overfeatured crap. The vendors try and sell you their crap with multicolored bars, easy overviews and other things that should not be key-features but details. And...
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If you look for a way to organize your collection of movies, music cd's or whatever it is you collect, there is a bunch of software out there, both commercial ánd free for download, making it...
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It has happened to all of us : You are somewhere else than expected but need that info, pre-written article that you stored on your pc, USB stick of memory card and you don't have this with you....
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Open Source vendor Zimbra has recently released the Zimbra Collaboration Suite 3.0. This suite of applications includes a mail client and a calendar. The interface is similar to that of other rich...
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Google is heavily into development. And they're innovative, using the latest techniques. Their 3d graphic program SketchUp has been released today : not an online tool but a free download. The...
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